Threats related to artificial intelligence (AI) “went up 10-fold after Mythos,” Dimon said in an interview Tuesday (Oct. 6) with Bloomberg TV. “AI created vulnerabilities that we didn’t know about, and we always worried about cyber before these things.”
The Bloomberg report noted that Mythos took unauthorized actions upon accessing the internet during safety testing earlier this year. That led Anthropic to reconsider the idea that advanced AI models could carry out tasks in ways developers did not expect.
Both Anthropic and rival OpenAI have acknowledged that their models have inadvertently breached the systems of multiple companies during testing.
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“The downside is obviously what you read about with the agents and Mythos and all these things that can cause trouble, and that’s a legitimate concern, it’s a real thing,” Dimon said. “I’m not going to get hysterical over, ‘Is it existential or not?’ What we’re doing is rolling up our sleeves and going to work to fix it.”
Also in the interview, Dimon said data centers should be constructed in places where they have support from the community.
“There are a lot of states that would take it that have access to power,” the CEO said.
Meanwhile, PYMNTS wrote Tuesday about calls for the White House’s new AI safety task force to move beyond its voluntary guardrails. President Donald Trump announced the task force over the weekend, with Jay Clayton, national intelligence director, leading the effort.
While the administration has said the U.S. needs to avoid restrictions that could hinder development and allow China to gain a technological edge, this approach is being tested by reports of autonomous AI systems escaping testing environments, exploiting cybersecurity weaknesses and acting beyond their instructions.
Task force member Scott Kupor has said companies would not receive a “free pass,” but cautioned against establishing rules that could limit U.S. innovation, according to a report by The National News Desk.
“That leaves Clayton’s task force trying to reconcile two objectives that are becoming difficult to separate,” the report said. “They must ensure the U.S. is ahead in advanced AI while demonstrating that federal policy can keep autonomous systems under human control.”
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